SIU probing fatal interaction with police

By News Staff

Posted February 20, 2012 5:13 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A man in his 40s has died in hospital after he was shot during an altercation with Toronto police near Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue, the province’s Special Investigations Unit confirms.

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